What is "streambeds"

Usage examples of "streambeds".

Wind erosion and the marvellous erratics created by volcanic bombardment from Olympus Mons gave the expedition members a lot of features to discuss: beach terracing from long­lost lakes, meandering streambeds, lava bombs shaped like giant teardrops, or coloured in a way that implied certain gases in copious quantities in the Hesperian atmosphere .

The streambeds down here have all been worked over a hundred times at least.

The sunlight on the snowfields above them was dazzling, and the sound of tumbling water seething down and down rocky streambeds to feed rivers leagues below on the plains of Darshiva and Gandahar was constantly in their ears.

The caravan route Garion and his friends foBowed rose up and up, winding along streambeds and mounting the sides of ridges.

The Riflemen made good time, cursing through the rocks, stumbling on the streambeds, going faster than the less well-trained men of the South Essex could travel.

They were walking a nightmare landscape on a plateau that was criss-crossed with ravines, streambeds, and rock.

This was standard procedure: if you found gold or diamonds in streambeds, you moved upstream toward the presumed erosive source of the minerals.

Fissures raying down the aprons served as the streambeds for rapid tumultuous creeks, the water pumped to their tops, or drawn down from rim water tanks that were pump-filled.

Everywhere rock lies, tumbled in the streambeds, smothered in moss, blanketing the slopes.